📚 Signed by John Irving – My Movie Business – Near Fine in Wraps! 📚

Description

My Movie Business is John Irving’s candid memoir about his experiences adapting his novels for film, particularly The Cider House Rules. Irving details the challenges of screenwriting, navigating Hollywood, and balancing creative control with industry demands.

He provides an inside look at his long struggle to bring The Cider House Rules to the screen, a process that took over a decade and ultimately won him an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Filled with Irving’s signature wit and storytelling prowess, this book is an insightful, humorous, and often critical reflection on literature’s uneasy relationship with Hollywood. A fascinating look at the art and struggle of turning fiction into film.

This copy signed on the title page — as opposed to a far larger amount that were signed on a blank page and then later tipped-in to the book by the publisher.